Jacob Yarn drying on the line ready to go to The Crafter's Basket

The first of this lovely fleece from Sara of Woodville farm in Sligo.  Spun and drying on the line to set the spin.  I take the fleece as it comes to me from the basket,  this gives each skein a very different proportion of black to white.  A lovely soft fleece which I have spun woollen. The first of this fleece is in The Crafter's Basket, Cliffoney, Co. Sligo and I am working on the rest.

Blue Faced Leicester Locks

I just missed the main shearing of the farmer's sheep that has a flock of pedigree BFL and the bags had already gone to the collection point and were mixed with hundreds of other bags,  but they found a few fleeces and one man had some rams that were not shorn so gradually I managed to get some of this amazing fleece.   Do I love it or do I hate it??  When I dye some locks like these I love it, they will look wonderful felted into a anything.  Lots of different sizes of locks to suit so many projects,  but when I am sitting teasing out the tiny locks so that I can spin it I am not so in love.  I know it will spin to make the softest of yarn but it is tedious to prepare.  All in all I have only ended up with 2 small bags so it will not last long.  I will find it hard to part with these locks but I will have more to follow.  Dyed using food dye in the microwave,  so simple,  if it goes right!!